rattrap
IPA: rætræp
noun
- A device (trap) used to catch rats.
- A dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary.
- A difficult, entangling situation.
- A type of bicycle pedal made of metal with no rubber.
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Examples of "rattrap" in Sentences
- By the time it became my home it was quite a rattrap.
- Her teeth protruded from the withered binding like a set rattrap.
- This is the worst mess he's seen in several dozen old-rattrap renovations.
- Under the sink sat an old rattrap identical to the two that I had taken earlier.
- The oldest one is counting the days until he turns eighteen and can leave this rattrap.
- The promise of fame is the cheese in Baron Cohen's rattrap of a movie, and everybody bites.
- Yet we are also drawn to workaday items such as cowbells, noodle-makers, and a cleverly designed rattrap.
- Cardenas awoke to a crawling sensation the likes of which he had experienced only once before, twenty years earlier while engaged in a stakeout in a rattrap of a motel in the worst part of Tucson.
- But, really, you and the others here have hammered away for the democrats to some up with a “plan” or have an “agenda” for the future — - well, be careful what you wish for, NED, us conservatives are getting caught in our own rattrap.
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